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The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. Homaro Cantu

Beauty, Country, Cherry

I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think. Alain de Botton

Through, Feels, Disturbance

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. Malcolm Gladwell

Always, Come, Impressions

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. Tariq Ramadan

Country, Religious, Other

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

New, No Time, Meant

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death. Stella Young

Strong, Snowflake, Symbol

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Mahmoud Darwish

Against, Like, Armies

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. Sylvia Earle

Beauty, Why, Some

The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts. Peter Maurer

Created, Cities, Address

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. James Hillman

Education, United, Fact

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. David Christian

Complexity, Big, Dangers

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. Alexander McQueen

Hidden, Romance, Agenda

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Things, Vulnerable

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control. Irwin Redlener

Control, Level, Disadvantage

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. Norman Cousins

Educated, Individual, Still

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors. Kai Bird

Young, Young Girl, Some

When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that. Carrie Brownstein

Grow, Chaos, Characterized

Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare. Peter Maurer

Inequalities, Added, Absorb

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. Jose Saramago

Rest, Discovered, Ominous

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them. Mary Gaitskill

Feel, Project, Subjective

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. John Logan

Broken, Old, Hugo

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic. Ben Bernanke

Given, Extent, Banks

I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently. Amy Chua

Self-Esteem, I Think

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. Bill Dedman

Distance, Through, Folly

Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility. Peter Maurer

Harm, Very, Environments

Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict. Peter Maurer

Start, Solutions, Very

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